Quotes About Survival

the world in silver and copper and iron." Simon crawled to the edge of the cage. "That doesn't make any sense. What are you going to eat? How are you going to breathe without plants to make oxygen?

Todo el mundo puede llegar hasta esa edad o más. Para ello basta con no morirse. Pero tengo entendido que los humanos viven más en cautiverio que en libertad.

ah've been on t'dole all mi life in fucking Leeds!

How do you manage for money?' I asked. I was given two simultaneous replies of 'We get by' from Ian and 'Don't ask' from Neil. I favoured Ian's reply because it had less-sinister connotations. 'Don't ask' left open the possibility that they raised funds by selling hitch-hikers into slavery. I changed the subject.

Coyote is always out there waiting, and Coyote is always hungry.

make the deer come out where you could shoot them. But maybe the kangaroo rats

When Union litter-bearers climbed out of their trenches, four days after the assault, they found only two men still alive amongst the piles of stinking corpses. One burial party discovered a dead Yankee with a diary in his pocket, the last entry of which read: "June 3. Cold Harbor. I was killed.

There was another, much clearer survival of freethinking ways. Sisterdale had never had a church, and Joe said his family had rarely spoken of religion except to dismiss it. "Dad would tell us, 'Dat's for Catholics', or 'Dat's for Lutherans, not us,' and said that if he wanted to talk to God he could do it in the fields.

HARPER: I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die. But there's still the rest of you.

I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die

Mama shook her head. "No, they don't kill for food. They kill for sport and for the thrill of the chase.

Cubans were getting a monthly ration of five pounds of rice, three pounds of beans, five eggs, one chicken, half a pound of coffee, milk for children up to age seven, one bar of soap, two rolls of toilet paper, three packs of cigarettes.

One young woman was convinced it's part of the plan: by keeping everyone poor no one has time to organize to topple the system; they have to devote all their time and energy to the pursuit of the next meal.

Our luck was still good. Sometimes a junkie and a whore can still make out in the Land of the Free.

Will humanity survive?

Primitive worshippers are always more than grateful when things go nicely right and very understanding when things go horribly wrong. They never blame their god for the bad times, in fear that he might send more of them, but they are always thankful for the good times. If only a few of them survive a major disaster, their god always gets the credit.

Childhood is dark and it's always moaning like a little animal that's locked in a cellar and forgotten. It comes out of your throat like your breath in the cold, and sometimes it's too little, other times too big. It never fits exactly. It's only when it has been cast off that you can look at it calmly and talk about it like an illness you've survived.

I is for me. I cannot believe how much I have fucked up in love. At least, physically. I don't believe I have mentally. For some weird reason, all of my tiny horrors have been liveable. I have not died. In fact, life has become better. Through age and experience there has come realisation: life is worth living.

There are flowers growing, and saplings are striving to push up past the ashes. There is life amid death. Hope in the midst of adversity.

A person had to keep herself in one piece when everything around her was falling apart.

Just being here with the beautiful Miss Hannah Dandridge makes it worth my while. I much prefer scavenging for food in the company of pretty gals over killin' men." He sobered and rubbed his chin. "Yes, sir, I prefer just about anything to killin'." "Well, I wish you luck with Miss Dandridge. You will most likely find a battlefield easier to manage.

child to lose her mother and brother, as you

To survive is to exist in spite of adversity.

Every human being has his or her own Winning Strategy—a Strategy for winning the games of life, for "making it" in life—or even for surviving in life.